Mizz Dominican - March 2003

On Tuesday last, in the National Basketball Arena,
Tallaght, the Minor Division One Basketball Finals took place
with hundreds of secondary students lining the stands to cheer on their
schools' teams.

Our First Year team was there along with the whole of First
Year and the senior team, who came along to support. Our final match was
against Maryfield and what a match it was!

Some of the team members were apprehensive about facing
Maryfield having lost to them in a prior match. But none the less,
the team walked onto the court with determined faces. The first quarter
did not go well for our team and at the end of that quarter the points
were 4-0 to Maryfield.

We made a good come back in the second quarter scoring 3
baskets. Maryfield, managed to keep their lead by also scoring
3 baskets. After half time, however, the tables turned when we scored
an amazing 6 baskets whilst Maryfield only scored 1. The final
quarter was nerve racking. Our team did a fantastic job of keeping the
ball up at their end of the court. Congratulations are in order to all
the players on the team. Final score 15-10 to DC. By: Sharon Hughes

This was a comfortable victory for the girls against relatively
easy competition. Everything went well from the start with Tara Cooling
and Emma Flanagan defending stoutly in the first half. Early scores
came from captain Rachel Quinn, Meadbh Bolger and Elaine Stone.
Lucan came into it slightly with ten minutes to go in the first
half but were generally kept at bay by midfielders Kate Mooney and
Sarah Quinn.

The second half saw the forwards registering more scores
from Mary Mc Carthy, Emma Cooling, Carol Ann Canning, Muireann Ní
Ghormáin and Rachel Quinn. The final score reflected
Dominican's superiority on the day and the school can now look
forward to a Junior and Senior League Final for the first time
in our recent history. Best on the day for Dominican College were
Tara Cooling, Rachel Quinn, Kate Mooney and Meabh Bolger.

Best of Luck to the Transition Year students who entered The
Irish Times 'Story of DNA' competition. The three groups had
to write about the advancements in DNA in recent years. The winning projects
will be published in The Irish Times newspaper later in the year.

Congratulations to Nicola Fallon 5.5 who came 3rd in The National
Cross Country Championships. She will now compete for Ireland at The
International Cross Country Championships in the next few weeks and
we wish her the best of luck.

Well done to the Senior A Basketball team who gave
an outstanding performance in the final. This is now the 3rd year in a
row for them to win the Senior Premier final. Congratulations to the Captain
Heather Byrne and the rest of the team; Sorcha Turnbull, Catríona
Darling, Karen O'Donoghue, Ciara Stephens, Joanne Elliott, Julie Wilkins
and Elaine Stone.

Thank you all for your support on Daffodil Day.
A big Thank You is due to all those who gave up their time to sell the
badges and raffle tickets for the Irish Cancer Society.

Well done to all the Transition Year students who
took part in fundraising on O'Connell Street for Focus Ireland (they help
the homeless of Ireland) on Wednesday last by dressing up as clowns. It
was a great success.

Congratulations to Rachel Cassidy 3.4 who made it
to the Leinster Golf Team last week.

Special Olympics.

As you probably already know Ireland is hosting the 2003
Special Olympics. Over 30,000 people have volunteered their time and expertise
in this huge event. As you can imagine the cost of this is going to be
considerable. So Ms. Laffoy had the brain wave to sponsor an athlete.
Every athlete needs €1,000. So we are asking all the students in
the school to donate either a €1 coin or a €2 coin.

On Friday the 28th March, everybody will be called down
(over the intercom) to the gym at different times during the day. You
will then be able to place your €1 or €2 coin on one of the
five rings of the Olympic symbol. So everybody, remember your money on
Friday!!